A new research project at the Swedish School of Textiles and the University of Gothenburg, funded by the Swedish Research Council, will investigate how generative design tools affect fashion's expression, norms, and role in society. Through artistic examples and theoretical discussions, the researchers want to reshape the view of fashion as an artistic practice – and contribute to the future education and research.

Can textiles that touch the skin relieve long-term pain? This is the core question of the large interdisciplinary research project Touch away the pain, where the University of Borås is one of the central actors. The project, which will run for six years, is part of the Swedish Research Council's investment in interdisciplinary research environments.

Four doctoral students are now working hard towards a common goal: to create and design textiles based on local bio-based raw materials. Their project is financed by Sparbanken Sjuhärad through its owner foundation.

What if your clothes could sense, respond, and even help you move? That’s the vision behind the doctoral project on “textile nerves” – conductive fibres designed for electronic and ionotronic textiles. Claude Huniade, who is behind an innovative project, has woven together chemistry, mechanics, and sustainability to rethink how textiles and electronics can merge.

What if your home wasn’t just a place to live, but a space to experiment with? That was one of the guiding ideas behind the artistic research project Holding Surplus House, carried out in collaboration between the Swedish School of Textiles, the Linnaeus University and Växjö Art Gallery and that now has been concluded.